Closi

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by Closi 11mo ago
I'm just going on the fact that most energy experts say a diversified mix is what you usually want - although my lay assumption would be that if you have a portion of your energy need covered by a stable base load, you need less batter
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by Closi 11mo ago
> You can see on the map at the bottom of this page that almost all the batteries are in areas that already have high amounts of renewables: It could be - but the battery investments map also align with the map below which shows that the
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by Closi 11mo ago
> Net result renewables currently save you money until ~80% annual electricity supply. At which point adding more batteries and generation to cover overnight demand is cheaper than adding nuclear to the mix. Assume you mean more expensiv
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by Closi 11mo ago
> This is shortsighted because [...] electricity renewables are cheaper than nuclear This is an oversimplification - Renewables are cheaper than nuclear, but they are also less reliable than nuclear in the sense that when the wind stops
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by Closi 11mo ago
To be honest this is the sort of thing Nano Bannana is weak at in my experience. It's absolutely amazing - but doesn't understand left/right/up/down/shrink this/move this/rotate this etc. See below to
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by Closi 1y ago
> AI will never know the why behind the architecture, it will only take it at face value. There is no reason to believe that at some point in the future AI will know the business context for apps when they are vibecoded (because the prom
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by Closi 1y ago
Amazon? https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon-pays-off-its-hi...
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by Closi 1y ago
Also 5% would be a ridiculously low rate for this sort of corporate finance. You would expect more like 8-12% I think? Plus the post seems to only include 1 year of interest. Unless we know the terms, I don't think we can necessarily c
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by Closi 1y ago
I don't know if I agree in this instance. While I agree that Black people completely have a shared identity and culture - the article is clearly talking about skin colour and it's doing a comparison between how AI represents two s
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by Closi 1y ago
That depends - scrapers are currently annoying and temperamental and you have to maintain them. Also the idea of allowing some random person from Fiverr to write some code you are going to have running in your infra that has access to your
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by Closi 1y ago
The counterpoint is 'Why hand your competitors data on a silver plate'? Sure you might be willing to build the bot to scrape it... but some other competitors won't go to this effort so it still means a bit of information asym
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by Closi 1y ago
While I agree it was ultimately flawed, I think it's likely that the core team at Humane genuinely thought this was the future of computing, and clearly put in a lot of effort. ... And maybe something like this is, it was probably just
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by Closi 1y ago
I know, that’s not what I was saying :)
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by Closi 1y ago
> Chinese people aren't stupid, they have been spending a fortune on automating as much of their manufacturing as possible! Slight nuance - they have spent a [reasonable amount of money] automating production. The trick to automatin
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by Closi 1y ago
I think they are referring to: > Durham University improved by 30 places year-on-year in its students’ evaluation of teaching quality, which was the main driver in securing its third place in the overall university league table Which isn
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by Closi 1y ago
Very true, although even at 2 or 3 drivers it’s still more than months.
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by Closi 1y ago
> maybe they are at around $200k/vehicle? That would be pretty easy to pay for a with a few months of rides. The 'few months' bit doesn't seem quite right - the cost to get a human to drive a car would maybe be $50k p
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by Closi 1y ago
IMO the benefit of a local LLM on a smartphone isn't necessarily compute power/speed - it's reliability without a reliance on connectivity, it can offer privacy guarantees, and assuming the silicon cost is marginal, could mea
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by Closi 1y ago
I'm not entirely sure the analogy is fair - Amazon for example was 'ridiculed' for being hugely unprofitable for the first decade, but had underlying profitability if you removed capex. As a counterpoint, if OpenAI were actua
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by Closi 1y ago
Exactly this - people that understood the field well enough to add new knowledge to it has to be a pretty decent signal for a research-level engineer. At the research level it’s not just about being smart enough, or being a good programmer,
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by Closi 1y ago
> All the other things he mentioned didn't rely on breakthroughs, LLMs really do seem to have reached a plateau and need a breakthrough to push along to the next step. I think a lot of them relied on gradual improvement and lots of
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by Closi 1y ago
I guess different small models will have different points/goals, but you can still have a small model with lots of training effort or a large model with little training effort. I think the point of most (frontier) small models is usual
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by Closi 1y ago
I don’t think we should use an AI trained in 5 minutes on a laptop to infer what small models are capable of… Sure they still have massive problems with hallucination, but this article doesn’t give us any more insight into that I don’t thin
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by Closi 1y ago
I assume you don’t use these models frequently, because there is a staggering difference in response quality from frontier LLMs compared to GPT 3. Go open the OpenAI API playground and give GPT3 and GPT5 the same prompt to make a reasonably
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by Closi 1y ago
> Suppose it can't. How will you know? By finding and testing problems that o3 can't do on Deep Think, and also testing the reverse? Or by large benchmarks comparing a whole suite of questions with known answers. Problems that
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by Closi 1y ago
It's not particularly interesting if Deep Mind comes to the same (correct) conclusion on a single problem as o3 but costs more. You could ask gpt 2.5 and gpt4 what 1+1= and would get the same response with gpt 4 costing more, but this
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by Closi 1y ago
I’m not saying autopilot was a bad business decision - autopilot has fuelled sales and no doubt has been a great success and is amazing tech for being in consumers cars at fairly low cost. I’m saying if the goal is to invent true robotaxis
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by Closi 1y ago
Tesla Robotaxi is a classic case of premature optimisation - with Waymo they decided to deploy whatever technology worked best and did not cost-optimise at the start. Each Waymo vehicle is much more expensive than a Tesla, and has much more
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by Closi 1y ago
Not a bug necessarily, but one of the key features of trello is multi-user editing which doesn't seem to work. i.e. if I open two tabs, and edit one tab, the other tab doesn't update and visa-versa until refresh.
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by Closi 1y ago
Maybe - but it will still probably be less than a junior dev. You could probably hammer the most expensive cursor API all-day every-day and it would still be a fraction of the cost of a junior dev.

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